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Protesters say 'Trump is the crisis' after national emergency declaration

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Protesters picketed on a interstate overpass Monday, holding signs that read “Trump is the crisis” after President Trump on Friday declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico.
MURRAY — Between four and five dozen protesters picketed on a interstate overpass Monday, waving flags and carrying signs that read “Trump is the crisis” after President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico.
“It’s not about border security. This a president who has taken the purse and the purse is Congress. The president doesn’t get to decide appropriations. He’s totally outside his constitutional limits. The people not only need to recognize that, but stop that,” said Sarah Buck of Salt Lake Indivisible.
These events should trouble all Americans because the U. S. Constitution established a balance of powers, she said.
“When that falls out of balance, we all fall,” Buck said.
The declaration gives Trump access billions of dollars to build a border wall after Congress refused to appropriate the level of funding he wanted.

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